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Tears & Return (Poem)
What are tears?
We all carry the ocean within us,
Salt and minerals and water.
Perhaps crying,
Be it joyous or grieving,
Signals the desire to return
To this primordial state.
A wish, unspoken, even unconscious,
To be as we began.
May you know you are home
And be at ease.
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Mummer’s Jig (Poem)
Glowing skeletons in neon hue
Jitter and jangle across the sky.
They fill the air with discordant shrieks
Underlaid with a cello drone.
The universe dances with them in mad lurch,
And autumn leaves rain to the ground.
They cover the mountains in fantastic garb,
Swirling in the chill breeze.
All this a presentiment: Winter fast approaches.
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Heart Sutra Tea (Poem)
I awaken and rise to make tea.
I take my first sip and then.
Immediately afterwards that moment expands,
Stretched apart by unseen hands.
I step into the opening as I swallow the tea.
Darkness which is not darkness enfolds me.
The taste of puer pulls the earth inside.
We rest in knowledge of primordial ground.
No beginning; no end; no self; no other.
I take a second sip and smile.
